Wouldn’t it be nice

you may have an idea there. i started reading this forum about 6months before i joined and remember a thred actually being about how fast people could up their post count.

i guess in the end unless you know the people on here personally you have t take everything with a pinch of salt. one thing though, please dont label all young peple as speed junkies who love gadgets. it may be true sometimes but its like saying people in their late 30's upwards sail GP14's - just not true.

i for one have no respect for bullsh1tters but will happily take advice from people like Guest#260, ianc, merlinboy etc. because they obviusly know what they are talking about. to quote batman 'its not who you are, but what you do that defines you'.

apologies for dragging the tread slightly off topic. the profile thing could work, but would be better if OTHERS added the info to make it fair. so if you go to an event and ***** does well, you can put it on his/her profile.

tom

On some other forums, I have seen a system where forum members get given thanks by other members for useful bits of help and info.  This would get away from people boosting their own profile and would quickly show those that dish out the 'help', but its useless and they therefore recieve no thanks.  Obviously you could fall foul of some members being boosted in ratings by their mates, but ratings and the source of thanks could be recorded for all to see in the users profile.

I suppose its a bit of a cross between ratings for members and an ebay style third party rating.

Any thoughts?  Apologies if this has already been suggested, but it has just occured to me and I can't be bothered reading back through this thread!

Pffft....

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